Just as Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France" (1790) predicted a dire fate for the mass insurrection then aborning, Mr. Caldwell looks with alarm at Europe's continuing rejection of itself.

As for the United Nations, Roosevelt viewed it, in Mr. Terzian's words, as an "instrument of American leadership," however internationalist Roosevelt's rhetoric might have been as the U.N. was aborning in his last years.

And, actually, I hear from a fair number of would-be authors who feel about their aborning books something in the neighborhood of what this woman feels about hers: that God/the cosmos has put the writing of their book on their heart, and that once it is finished, the stars will properly align, and their book will become the bestseller it was always destined to be.

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"In universities at least as much as anywhere else, vast floods of words pour forth to no useful end. Nothing would be lost if they had died aborning."- Loren Lomasky, 'Talking the talk: Have universities lost sight of why they exist?', Reason, May 2001.